“I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.”

“I never wished I’d been a man. I always felt like a woman and wanted to be a woman. I wanted to be fulfilled professionally and personally, as a woman. There are some who might say I had penis envy, but I only had penis admiration.”

“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”

“I am just too much.”

“I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.”

“I'de luv to kiss ya but I just washed my hair.”

“I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.”